Unmanned Vehicle

An Unmanned Vehicle is an vehicle without a human vehicle operator.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Unmanned Working Vehicle (such as a weaponized unmanned vehicle) to being a Unmanned Hobby Robot.
  • It can range from being a Remotely Guided Vehicle to being an Autonomous Vehicle.
• Example(s):
  • Unmanned Interstellar Vehicle.
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicle.
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
  • Unmanned Nautical Vehicle.
  • Unmanned Subnautical Vehicle, e.g. a Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Manned Vehicle.
  • a Surface-to-Air Weapon.
• See: Autonomous, Remote Control Vehicle, Driver, Collision Avoidance.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/unmanned_vehicle Retrieved:2015-2-2.
  • An unmanned vehicle is a vehicle without a person ("man") on board. Unmanned vehicles can either be remote controlled or remote guided vehicles, or they can be autonomous vehicles which are capable of sensing their environment and navigating on their own.

    Types:

    • Unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), such as the autonomous car.
    • Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), unmanned aircraft commonly known as a "drone"
      • Unmanned combat aerial vehicle.
    • Unmanned surface vehicle (USV), for the operation on the surface of the water
    • Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) or unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), for the operation underwater
    • Unmanned spacecraft, both remote controlled ("unmanned space mission") and autonomous ("robotic spacecraft” or “space probe")

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